Engineer A Post-Employment ABC Report Confidentiality Perpetuation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/178#Engineer_A_Post-Employment_ABC_Report_Confidentiality_Perpetuation
Properties
Instance of
FormerClientConfidentialityPerpetuationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FormerClientConfidentialityPerpetuationObligation
Case context
Engineer A developed the water treatment plant expansion report as an ABC employee; upon departing and establishing an independent firm, he retained knowledge of the report's content and subsequently solicited Clover City for related work.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to continue protecting the confidential content of the ABC water treatment plant expansion report after departing ABC, recognizing that the termination of his employment did not extinguish his duty to protect proprietary information developed during that employment.
Temporal scope
From Engineer A's departure from ABC through all subsequent independent practice
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Absence of Specialized Knowledge Bar for Engineer A
Source Evidence
Source text
As an employee of ABC, Engineer A developed the report by which the city will get funding for the water treatment plant expansion.
Text references
As an employee of ABC, Engineer A developed the report by which the city will get funding for the water treatment plant expansion.
However, after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City.
The city has paid ABC for this report.
TTL
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case178:Engineer_A_Post-Employment_ABC_Report_Confidentiality_Perpetuation a proeth:FormerClientConfidentialityPerpetuationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Post-Employment ABC Report Confidentiality Perpetuation" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case178:Absence_of_Specialized_Knowledge_Bar_for_Engineer_A ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A developed the water treatment plant expansion report as an ABC employee; upon departing and establishing an independent firm, he retained knowledge of the report's content and subsequently solicited Clover City for related work." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case178:Post-Employment_Confidential_Information_Non-Use_Applied_to_ABC_Water_Treatment_Report ;
proeth:discoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Former Client Confidentiality Perpetuation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to continue protecting the confidential content of the ABC water treatment plant expansion report after departing ABC, recognizing that the termination of his employment did not extinguish his duty to protect proprietary information developed during that employment." ;
proeth:sourcetext "As an employee of ABC, Engineer A developed the report by which the city will get funding for the water treatment plant expansion." ;
proeth:temporalscope "From Engineer A's departure from ABC through all subsequent independent practice" ;
proeth:textreferences "As an employee of ABC, Engineer A developed the report by which the city will get funding for the water treatment plant expansion.",
"However, after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City.",
"The city has paid ABC for this report." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 178 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T08:48:26.013030"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 178 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
178
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00
First case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00
Attributed to
Case 178 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:26.013030
Generated by
ProEthica Case 178 Extraction